General Info

• Syllabus: The syllabus is prepared in PDF format; click here.
• Section Website: 005, 010, 012.
• Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays

  005: 9:05am-9:55am (303 Willard)

  010: 4:40pm-5:30pm (109 Osmond)

  012: 3:35pm-4:25pm (105 Osmond)

• Text: Calculus, 6th Edition, by James Stewart, published by Thomson (Brooks/Cole). An electronic version of the textbook is available at http://pennstate.ichapterssites.com

Goals and Objectives

In this course the student will learn basic vector operations, vectur-valued functions, real-valued multivariable functions, and directional derivatives. More specifically, the student will,

• efficiently perform scalar and vector product of 3-dimensional vectors;
• succinctly describe a geometric object by vector functions and vice versa;
• correctly calculate the gradient of a function with several variables;
• accurately solve a maximum/minimum problem, using the method of Lagrange multipliers if necessary.